With very little public areas of any kind open in Illinois, besides our many delightful forest preserves, my son and his summer program m...

Because my son’s summer program is so small, it is (thankfully) in regular session, despite the fact that Illinois is only partially reop...

A couple of weeks ago, I took my son and a friend of his to a local forest preserve—that being one of the few things open during the pand...

My son was about to have his first in-person, life parkour practice in months. There would be only 10 kids. They would work out in the gy...

My son needs a lot of coaching to complete a project, assigned to him by someone else—say a teacher. But he has 150% focus and puts in 20...

A listserve on which I participate featured a recent exchange among some parents of adults with intellectual and developmental disabiliti...

“They say you cannot have your cake and eat it too…but ain’t that what ya supposed to do?” (Anonymous) A number of my clients with disabi...

My family and I have started raising “backyard” chickens. We put a lot of thought into this project because the village has restrictions ...

The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Board of Trustees has released its annual financial analysis report. The trust fund that suppo...

At first glance, you may think that you (if you have a disability) do not or your family member who has a disability, does not qualify fo...

Two days ago, I looked out my windows on snow and at a thermometer reading of 28°F. Less than two weeks ago, it was so summer-like hot, m...

Advocates have succeeded. The Social Security Administration and the Treasury De- partment have have found a way to deliver the economic...

The only constant in life is change,” is attributed to Heraclitus (540-480 BCE). Having changed our ways of working, school, shopping and...

My son’s favorite subjects are math and science. His is preferred mode of learning is activity. His least-preferred mode of learning is r...

My son goes to a tiny Montessori school that offers schooling to the equivalent of pre-K through 12th grade and that has been doing an ex...

When businesses and organizations started reducing hours and services in response to the COVID-19 situation, I like many of you started q...

This past week, I came to talk to a group of high school students with disabilities about Social Security, Medicaid,and Medicare Work Inc...

My son occasionally prefaces disclosures with: “I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first?” His dad and I usuall...

In initial episode of Netflix’s new series, AJ and the Queen, Rupaul’s character, Robert (stage name “Ruby Red”) becomes a victim of his ...

When I was a child, my grandfather taught me to play checkers. He liked the game and was quite good at it. For variety, he also taught me...